"2015 ""Doctor Who"" episode ""The Girl Who Died"", and the animated TV shows ""The Simpsons"", ""Family Guy"", and ""South Park."" The stop motion animated sketch comedy series ""Robot Chicken"" featured a brief sketch depicting Benny Hill's funeral (using dolls) where the attendees have a Benny Hill Show-type chase scene with many of the usual gags and a song similar to Yakety Sax. The theme was used during the 2012 Olympics beach volleyball event between sets (where rakers must rush to smooth out the court). Yakety Sax ""Yakety Sax"" is a pop novelty instrumental jointly composed by James Q. ""Spider"" Rich"
"Billy's Boots Billy's Boots was a popular British comic strip by writer Fred Baker and artist John Gillatt, later continued by Mike Western. The original Billy's Boots was an earlier humorous series, written and drawn by Frank Purcell, which appeared in Tiger between 1961 and 1963, with a similar premise to this later series. The later more serious Billy appeared in the first issue of ""Scorcher"" in 1970 , and later moved to ""Tiger"" when the two comics merged in 1974. In 1985 ""Tiger"" in turn merged with ""Eagle"" and the strip moved again, however just a year later Billy's"
"instance, ""Viz"" comic ran a parody strip called Wanker Watson. There is also a British racehorse called Winker Watson after the character. Winker Watson Winker Watson is a British comic strip, created by Eric Roberts, which ran in the British comic book magazine ""The Dandy"" for almost half a century. It debuted in 1961 and only terminated its run in 2007. It was revived in 2012. Winker first appeared in the 1961 Dandy Book (published September 1960), and then appeared in the weekly Dandy on 1 April 1961 in issue Number 1010, and was quickly established as a character of"
"the collaborators were the composer of light music Edward Hughes and the poet Peter Westmore (Oxford 1966). It was followed by Michael Hurd's ""Rooster Rag"", a 13-minute pop cantata for narrator and unison voices that was commissioned and first performed in May 1975 at the Cookham Festival. The main chorus is of six hens, and there are the solo characters of Chanticleer, Pertelote and Mr Fox for stage versions. The choice of title was influenced by the popular ""Chanticleer Rag"" of 1910. However, the original cover illustration for that (based on a costume design by Coquelin) and the words make"
"strong man, his name is a play on Charles Atlas) and Cynthia the fat lady. The comic strip was later revived in ""The Dandy"", under the title Pinky's Crackpot Circus, in a strip drawn by Nick Brennan and later drawn by Gary Northfield. This revival first appeared in October 2003. Characters during this time included Pinky, the ringleader, Spanky and Blotto the clowns, Brenda the bearded lady, Rick the human cannonball, Thomas the tightrope walker Lenny the lion tamer and Mehmet the elephant. Colonel Crackpot's Circus Colonel Crackpot's Circus was a British comic strip, published from 1960 until 1963 in"
"ran through ""Prize Comics"" #52 (April 1945) before becoming a humor series and then being revived in horrific form in the series ""Frankenstein"" #18-33 (March 1952 - November 1954). Gilberton Publications' 60-page ""Classic Comics"" #12 (June 1943) adapted Washington Irving's short story ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" as a backup feature to Irving's ""Rip Van Winkle"" in a package titled ""Rip Van Winkle and the Headless Horseman"". The next issue, ""Classic Comics"" #13 (August 1943), adapted Robert Louis Stevenson's horror novella ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"" as the full-length story ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"", making it"
"York City, and is now in the Maurice Zouary collection at the Library of Congress. In 1922, the instrumental version of ""The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers"" was a hit single performed by Carl Fenton's Orchestra. Hit versions were also recorded by the Vincent Lopez Orchestra in 1922 and by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra in 1923. A Betty Boop cartoon, ""Parade of the Wooden Soldiers"", was created with the music in 1933. Also in 1933, The Rockettes began annually performing their own choreographed version of the piece, based on Balieff's original, in their Radio City Christmas Spectacular. The melody"
"name Meebo and Zuky. Puss 'n' Boots (comics) Puss 'n' Boots was a British comic strip which ran in the UK comic magazine ""Sparky"" from 1969 to 1977 and later appeared in ""Topper"" and ""The Dandy"". Most of the strips were drawn by John Geering. Some scripts were written by Morris Heggie, later to become editor of the Dandy. The strip's protagonists are Puss, a black anthropomorphic cat and Boots, a similarly humanoid brown dog. In the stories they are in a continuous state of conflict, as indicated by the strap-line ""They Fight Like Cat and Dog"". Most stories revolved"
"the most prominent of the young social critics. Morty Meekle Morty Meekle is an American syndicated newspaper comic strip that was published between 1956 and 1966, created and produced by cartoonist Dick Cavalli. The series featured the title character dealing with office and dating situations, and, like ""Fritzi Ritz"", which earlier became ""Nancy"", evolved to focus on the younger characters from Cavalli's strip, and was renamed ""Morty Meekle and Winthrop"" and then just ""Winthrop"" in February 1966. Gag cartoonist Dick Cavalli—whose work appeared in magazines including ""The Saturday Evening Post"" and ""Collier's""—had achieved such popularity by 1956 that ""Writer's Digest"""
"British weekly comic for 46 years, until ""The Dandy"" overtook it in 1999. The comic is mentioned in G. K. Chesterton's 1905 book ""Heretics"" and 1910 book ""Alarms and Discursions"", and in a line of Cyril Tawney's song ""Chicken on a Raft"" - ""He's looking at me ""Comic Cuts"" again"". It was also mentioned in Clive Dunn's 1971 hit record ""Grandad"" - """"Comic Cuts"", all different things."" The character Annie Twohig refers to it in Lennox Robinson's play ""Drama at Inish"" (""Annie: I'll stay at home and read a magazine."" ""Constance: Which magazine?"" ""Annie: ""Comic Cuts"".""). Comic Cuts Comic Cuts"
"pseudonymous Jack Daniels, """" (1989) is a revolutionary socialist comic set in Britain during the 1980s, with Tintin and his uncle (modelled after Captain Haddock) being working class Englishmen who turn to socialism in order to oppose the capitalist policies of the Conservative Party government of Margaret Thatcher. When first published in Britain, it caused an outrage in the mainstream press, with one paper issuing the headline that ""Commie nutters turn Tintin into picket yob!"" Other comic creators have chosen to create artistic stories that are more like fan fiction than parody. The Swiss artist Exem created the irreverent comic"
"The McTickles The McTickles was a British gag-a-day comic strip in the British comic book magazine ""The Beano"". It was drawn by Vic Neill and ran from 1971 to 1974. Chief Jock and his highland clan fought a comic war of attrition against their rivals the McNasties, while avoiding the pranks played on them by the ""McHaggises"", small round animals, with a similar shape to a haggis with long noses and thistles for ears. Some McHaggises had different lengthened legs on opposite sides of their bodies, allowing them to remain horizontal while walking around the sides of mountains. The many"
"UT (comics) UT was a British adult comic that was published monthly in the mid-1990s. The title began as a weekly pop music parody strip by Kev F Sutherland and Russ Carvell in the music paper Sounds, running from 1987 until Sounds final issue in 1991. When Sutherland got the chance to create a new humour magazine in September 1991 he revived the strip's name, with Carvell drawing the covers and lead movie parody strips. Edited by Sutherland, ""UT"" was one of many comics emulating the success of ""Viz""; however it attempted to engage the quality end of the market,"
"Morty Meekle Morty Meekle is an American syndicated newspaper comic strip that was published between 1956 and 1966, created and produced by cartoonist Dick Cavalli. The series featured the title character dealing with office and dating situations, and, like ""Fritzi Ritz"", which earlier became ""Nancy"", evolved to focus on the younger characters from Cavalli's strip, and was renamed ""Morty Meekle and Winthrop"" and then just ""Winthrop"" in February 1966. Gag cartoonist Dick Cavalli—whose work appeared in magazines including ""The Saturday Evening Post"" and ""Collier's""—had achieved such popularity by 1956 that ""Writer's Digest"" observed he had ""risen to the top faster"
"Puss 'n' Boots (comics) Puss 'n' Boots was a British comic strip which ran in the UK comic magazine ""Sparky"" from 1969 to 1977 and later appeared in ""Topper"" and ""The Dandy"". Most of the strips were drawn by John Geering. Some scripts were written by Morris Heggie, later to become editor of the Dandy. The strip's protagonists are Puss, a black anthropomorphic cat and Boots, a similarly humanoid brown dog. In the stories they are in a continuous state of conflict, as indicated by the strap-line ""They Fight Like Cat and Dog"". Most stories revolved around one of them"
""" Morty Meekle"", featuring the courtship of the title character and his girlfriend, Jill Wortle, as well as Morty's travails at his low-level office job under boss E.G. Boomer. The strip gradually deemphasized the romance and work aspects in favor of what comics historian Maurice Horn called its ""background chorus of snide youngsters with a perceptive take on the human condition."" On February 27, 1966, Cavalli removed the adult characters and renamed the strip ""Winthrop"", after Jill's kid brother, the most prominent of the young social critics. Cavalli's art assistants on the strip included Bob Weber Sr. and Ray Osrin."
"rooster from the medieval fable ""Reynard the Fox"" (""Le Roman de Renart"") which was used by Geoffrey Chaucer in the ""Canterbury Tales"". At the time, the student humour magazine at Rutgers was called ""Chanticleer"", and one of its early arts editors, Ozzie Nelson (later of ""The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"" fame) was quarterback of the Rutgers team from 1924 to 1926. The Chanticleer mascot was unveiled at a football game against Lafayette College, in which Lafayette was also introducing a new mascot, a leopard. However, the choice of Chanticleer as a mascot was often the subject of ridicule because"
"were replaced by a Li'l Abner parody, ""Catfish Joe"" (#40–48) and ""Li'l Chief Bugaboo"" (#40–47); ""Bentley of Scotland Yard"" ended in #41 (August 1943), replaced by the slapstick voyages of ""Marco Loco, Adventurer"" (#42–52) by Carl Hubbell. Even The Shield was presented with two offbeat humor stories in #41–42 as he dealt with the chaotic antics of an alien, 'Monstro the Martian', although his stories did return to their darker side after that. This humor was also reflected on the covers, as from #41 The Shield shared the spotlight with Archie Andrews, appearing mainly as a background stooge for Archie's"
"Gaffey, Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog and Iwcs a Gaff. In 2008, German folk-collective Werkraum under leadership by Axel Frank recorded their own adaption of the English original using some changes in the verses, referring to Tory Island instead of Liverpool, probably inspired by a stormy cruise to the north-west coast of Ireland and the historical Irish immigration to America. In 2012, the German group Santiano recorded a new version of this song. The group has had much success, and received an Echo for their first album containing Santiano as well as other shanties. There is a Norwegian version of this song"
"for the title and the musicians' names. I mainly drew from The Book of Taliesin, which is a collection of poems, said to be written by the sixth century Welsh bard Taliesin.""[3] In 1968, Lord became a teacher at Brighton College of Art (now the Faculty of Arts). He concentrated on the illustration of books. He was commissioned to illustrate the ""Adventures of Jabotí on the Amazon"" and ""Reynard the Fox"" and so began a love affair with narrative illustration. During the 1970s, while a teacher at Brighton, he wrote ""The Giant Jam Sandwich"", ""The Runaway Roller Skate"" and ""Mr"
"parody of ""Mickey"" by Toni Basil; an ode to ""I Love Lucy"" with Yankovic performing as Ricky and Tress MacNeille as Lucy. ""Gotta Boogie"" is a play on words discussing a man with a ""boogie"" on his finger and his quandary therein. ""I Love Rocky Road"" is a parody of Arrows' ""I Love Rock 'n' Roll"" made famous by Joan Jett; in the song the narrator expresses feelings about the titular ice cream flavor. ""Buckingham Blues"" is a blues song satirizing the socialite lifestyle of the Prince and Princess of Wales (Prince Charles and Diana). Originally, the song was going"
"Rabbit Hood Rabbit Hood is a 1949 Bugs Bunny cartoon which parodies the ""Robin Hood"" story. Originally released on December 24, 1949, the short was directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. As usual, Mel Blanc picked up all the voice characterizations. The layouts were done by Robert Gribbroek and the backgrounds by Peter Alvarado. This cartoon is the origin of the infamous ""knighting"" exchange, where Bugs Bunny is dressed up like a king, and proceeds to pound the Sheriff's head with his sceptre while dispensing an oddball title with each strike: There is a wall covered with"
"1959 by Henri Verneuil, with Fernandel and Gino Cervi. Indirect adaptions include the episode ""The Ransom of Red Chimp"" of the 1990s Disney animated series ""TaleSpin"" and ""The Ransom of Rusty Rex"", a segment of the 2015 anthology film ""Tales of Halloween"". A 2015 episode of the BBC Radio 4 comedy anthology ""Stanley Baxter's Playhouse"", titled ""Two Desperate Men"" after how the kindappers sign their note, relocated the story to rural Scotland in the 1930s. More generally, the concept of a hostage becoming too much for their captors to bear has become a familiar cultural trope, It has been used"
"other month. Jack Mendelsohn was the ghostwriter of the Felix strip from 1948 to 1952. In 1954, Messmer retired from the Felix daily newspaper strips, and his assistant Joe Oriolo (the creator of Casper the Friendly Ghost) took over. The strip concluded in 1966. Felix co-starred with Betty Boop in the ""Betty Boop and Felix"" comic strip (1984–1987). With the advent of synchronized sound in ""The Jazz Singer"" in 1927, Educational Pictures, who distributed the Felix shorts at the time, urged Pat Sullivan to make the leap to ""talkie"" cartoons, but Sullivan refused. Further disputes led to a break between"
"novelty songs, including ""Basketball Jones""(1973) and ""Earache My Eye"" (1974). Other novelty songs in the '70s are Jimmy Castor Bunch ""King Kong""(1975), Rick Dees' ""Disco Duck"" (1976) and The Fools' ""Psycho Chicken"" (1978). ""Weird Al"" Yankovic would emerge as one of the most prolific parody acts of all time in the 1980s, with a career that would span four decades; he would join Cliff Richard in being one of the few acts to have at least one top-40 hit in the U.S. in four consecutive decades (1950s through the 1980s for Richard, 1980s to 2010s for Yankovic). Randy Brooks wrote"
"Funday Times The Funday Times was a section of the UK ""Sunday Times."" It was intended mainly for children, and included several comic strips, including ""Dennis and Gnasher"", ""Rex and Tex"", ""Beryl the Peril"", ""Fans Utd."", ""Scooby-Doo"", ""Space Raoul"", ""The Powerpuff Girls"", ""Creature Feature"", ""Newton's Law"", ""Jarvis"", ""Squirt"", ""The Flintstones"", ""Robot Crusoe"", ""Goosebumps"" and ""The Simpsons"". Launched in 1989 it originally featured adult cartoons like ""Modesty Blaise"" but quickly dropped them in favour of more child friendly fare such as ""Asterix"". It also included reviews of various toys and songs, interviews with celebrities, including Will Smith, Gail Emms and Matt"
"Joe Maneely Joseph Maneely (; February 18, 1926 – June 7, 1958) was an American comic book artist best known for his work at Marvel Comics' 1950s predecessor, Atlas Comics, where he co-created the Marvel characters the Black Knight, the Ringo Kid, the Yellow Claw, and Jimmy Woo. An exquisite draftsman whose delicate yet solid, fine-line figures made his work both distinctive and well-suited to the medium, Maneely was one of the relative stars of Atlas, along with such soon-to-blossom talents as Steve Ditko and John Romita, Sr. Writer/editor Stan Lee commented that, ""Joe Maneely to me would have been"
"to issues of Hoot. The comic also featured short, four-frame strips featuring pre-existing DC Thomson characters, but few of these strips seemed to have been drawn by their ""proper"" artists, hence a rather odd-looking Lord Snooty. Below is a list of these four frame strips. These strips were drawn by George Martin and after ""Hoot""s merger with ""The Dandy"" they reappeared in ""The Dandy"" (still drawn by George Martin) under the title Comic Cuts and this time featured more ""Dandy"" characters than in ""Hoot"". Hoot (comics) Hoot was a British comic book magazine that ran from (issues dates) 26 October"
"own song 'Day and Night', and finished off with Handel's 'O ruddier than the cherry' (from ""Acis and Galatea""). Then the Leeds Madrigal and Motet Society performed his work ""Sailors Beware!"" Hatton was always very diverse. In 1856 his secular cantata of ""Robin Hood"", to a text by George Linley, was given at the Bradford Festival. Hatton became a foremost exponent of the writing of glees and part songs, both through his love of English madrigals, and through the influences he derived from German music. His connection with Oliphant had given him an immediate path of information and study. A"
"British comics such as ""The Dandy"", many other comics merged with ""Buster"" over the years, in consequence of which ""Buster"" inherited some of their characters: Here is a list of how the strips came to an end in the final issue: ""School Fun"" was a British comic book magazine that ran from the issues dated 15 October 1983 to 26 May 1984, when it merged with ""Buster"". As the name implies, the comic's ""gimmick"" was that every strip revolved around school. Buster (comics) Buster was a British comic (28 May 1960 – 4 January 2000) which carried a mixture of"
"in the comic. Other suggestions that were considered good by Petrie included: ""Iron (stomach) Man"" (""Iron Man""), ""A-lard-in"" (""Aladdin""), ""Harry Scoffer and the order on Phoenix Street"" (""Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix""), all from Harry Rickard, ""Currynation Street"" (""Coronation Street"") and ""The Fat in the Hat"" (""The Cat in the Hat""), both by Oliver Forde. Fatty Fudge Fatty Fudge is a British comics character who is most associated with the British comics magazine ""The Beano"". He was originally a supporting character in ""Minnie the Minx"" by Leo Baxendale, but eventually received his own spin-off comic. As his"
"Sonic the Comic Sonic the Comic, known to its many readers as STC, was a British children's comic published fortnightly by Fleetway Editions (the merged companies Fleetway and London Editions, which progressively became integrated with its parent company Egmont until it became known as Egmont Magazines) between 1993 and 2002. It was the UK's official Sega comic, featuring stories about its mascot Sonic the Hedgehog and related characters, as well as comic strips based on other Sega video games. The comic received praise from fans and has since then gained such a loyal cult following that, after the end of"
"Winker Watson Winker Watson is a British comic strip, created by Eric Roberts, which ran in the British comic book magazine ""The Dandy"" for almost half a century. It debuted in 1961 and only terminated its run in 2007. It was revived in 2012. Winker first appeared in the 1961 Dandy Book (published September 1960), and then appeared in the weekly Dandy on 1 April 1961 in issue Number 1010, and was quickly established as a character of great wit and appeal. Probably modeled on the Greyfriars stories and on Harry Wharton, Winker is a pupil of the Third Form"